Cut the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency and abandon the objective of reducing emissions of polluting gases into the atmosphere, decided by Donald Trump, on the one hand, as well as encouraging exploration, new extraction methods and the production of fuels that They produce Greenhouse Gases (GHG) on the other hand, equivalent to a head-on collision between two high-speed trains. After that the least that can be expected is a derailment.
That shock, in reality, in what can happen is in the derailment of the climate, whose signs have been reaching us for some time, although the denialists and skeptics do not want to accept them and maintain that Climate Change is not linked to human endeavors and it is a Chinese invention.
However, representatives of 194 countries are of the opposite opinion and for this reason they signed the Paris Agreement, in 2015, Editores Unidos included, whose main objective is to keep the increase in world temperature below 2 ° C by the end of this century. Agreement from which the Trump administration is planning to withdraw her country.
Denying human influence on their environment is equivalent to not knowing that gases escape from the exhaust pipe of a car, although these are not always visible. To verify this, these people only have to travel to cities like Los Angeles, Mexico City or Beijing, a day when the smog is so dense that you can hardly breathe. A day when the authorities prohibit the circulation of motor vehicles through the center until further notice, that is, when the environmental contamination returns to tolerable levels.
It would also be appropriate for deniers and skeptics to take a tour of Borneo, the third largest island on the planet, larger than double Germany, to observe the consequences of the largest and fastest man-made ecological catastrophe in the world. history of mankind. Already there, three quarters of the forests have been depleted, which before were almost impenetrable due to the great variety and quantity of trees that made it up, as we saw last week. Already in Borneo, local climate change by homo sapiens is a fait accompli, as clear to observe as to look through the finest glass. Destroying forests also causes climate change, as we will see in detail next week.
Environmental pollution in large cities, the destruction of the forests of Borneo, already almost completed; that of the Amazon, which goes along the same path; the killing of elephants and rhinos; those of whales and dolphins and those of mammals with precious skins, just to name the most emblematic cases, are undoubtedly the product of human actions causing imbalances in the atmosphere and in food chains.
The Earth is a systemic set, in which physical, chemical and biological phenomena interact, so we could say, by way of caricature, that a tree hectare cut in Borneo produces a tornado in Kansas.
If the extreme events inherent in human activities were to occur, the three phenomena would concur and affect the entire system at a level of unprecedented chaos and with no possibility of returning to its previous state.
If we do not accept reality, if we deny our responsibility and we do not know that our population growth has been exponential, like our intelligence, technology and science, all of which have placed us at a brutal asymmetric advantage over other species, then reality it may appear before our eyes turned into the greatest imaginable chaos.
If we do not act soon and we are not able to use our advantages to regain the balance of the planet, then Mother Earth will present her bill to us and perhaps we can no longer honor her. But she will know how to restore order in its waters, soils and airs, as it has always known how to do in its 4,000 million years of life. But homo sapiens will no longer be there to tell it.
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